“The purpose of software engineering is to manage complexity, not to create it."Bill Catambay

Project X is the codename for a BeOS IDE/RAD/GUI editor that focuses on:

Usability

User-efficiency

Power

Stability

What qualifies Project X as an IDE (Integrated Development
Environment)?

The only true IDE publicly and officially released before 2004 (not beta or
before) for BeOS is BeIDE (note: Project X hasn't been released yet): it
includes access to most basic things needed by a developer when developing an
application, such as a code/text editor, project management, and a certain
amount of external tool support (such as a limited use of an external debugger),
and is quite stable. The project management features are low-powered, though
sufficient for most things.

Project X includes a more powerful editor and project management features,
as well as supporting external tool use.

What qualifies Project X as RAD (Rapid Application
Development)?

There is currently no tool that fits the definition of RAD for BeOS. The
first requirement for a tool to qualify as a RAD tool is maximizing
user-efficiency. This is often achieved via visually oriented development
environments and editors that allow rapid prototyping and code generation
through the use of Wizards or other forms of automation. Many RAD tools only
assist in generating code for a GUI, based on a GUI drawn in a GUI editor.
Project X will excel as a visual RAD tool for the GUI editor, but will also
assist the user in rapid prototyping for projects that don't use a GUI at all.

Project X includes flexible and powerful user-definable code generation
and automation for all types of projects.

What qualifies Project X as a GUI (Graphical User
Interface) Editor ?

There is currently no tool that is a truly powerful, easy to use, and stable
GUI editor for BeOS. This editor will allow the user to readily define the
visual appearance of BeOS GUI applications in a very efficient manner. The GUI
editor included with Project X allows user-configurable code generation, with
intelligent standard templates.

Project X includes a GUI editor of comparable or better power to that of
more mature GUI editors on other operating systems.